[email protected] wrote: > > Martin wrote:- > =A0 > Rubbish! No, that's not a comment on your posting - it's what the trains ca= > rry. There's a refuse transfer depot that sends domestic rubbish out in con= > tainer trains. > So, no chance of riding the rails there, then?
Not unless you fancy stowing away in a dustcart... > If you're so good at identifying obscure little lines, Martin--then what ab= > out the branch line that splits from its larger cousin to run through Glads= > tone Park in Cricklewood & Dudding [as opposed to Dudden] Hill=A0Junction [= > according to the signal box anyway] before entering the massive complex nea= > r Staples Corner, that I believe used to be one of the biggest marshalling = > yards in Europe when I was a kid? > That line runs right past my boyhood home--it would be great to see *that* = > from a train! Sorry, that's another freight-only line. Originally built mainly for freight - to provide links from the Midland Railway's goods yards to several other railway lines ~ it did originally also carry passenger services but they were withdrawn over a hundred years ago. There have been a couple of suggestions in recent years of putting passenger trains on it, including a proposal to run trains from the new Heathrow Airport spur through to St Pancras to connect with Eurostar, but they have come to nothing. Incidentally it appears that while 'Dudden' is used for the local place name, 'Dudding' has always been the version used by the railway. (There have been a few similar cases of 'railway spellings' including the former railway station of 'Fulbourne', located in what the post office, Ordnance Survey and most other folks refer to as the village of 'Fulbourn'. This has led to speculation that, given that the GU narrow boat of the same name follows the railway spelling, perhaps the names for the GU 'Town Class' boats were actually chosen from a list of stations in a Bradshaws railway guide.) Martin L
